Looking through Google News this morning a couple of articles about Google jumped out at me. When you’re the top dog, everyone wants to take a bite - and it seems there are some hungry people out there. The first one was about a Belgian company filing a lawsuit over search terms offered by Google in regards to its software. The second was about Brazil taking on Google over its users distributing child porn and racist material.

While the issues involved are complex, I have to wonder just how much responsibility Google has to be liable for what its users search for. Google doesn’t create the Web sites that it indexes. It doesn’t enter the search terms that people use. Those sites and the individuals who are breaking the law should be the targets of lawsuits I would think. But then they don’t have the monetary assets that Google has so what good would it do to sue them? Google has become the dominant search engine and already such a part of mainstream life that it will be a target no matter what it does.

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